blubber
Example Sentences
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He even found himself “blubbering” on the first watch, which surprised him as someone who doesn’t often cry at movies and certainly not at ones he’s in, which he usually can barely watch.
From Seattle Times
“His characters have a layer of charm, a thin skin of bonhomie over the blubber of the natural bully,” London Observer film critic Philip French once wrote.
From Washington Post
“There are these passages where they are squeezing the whale blubber that are so perverse,” she said recently in Zurich, where she lives.
From New York Times
The composition in the group image evokes shipwrecks, but more than anything, the sailors look like a whaling crew, pulling at the flayed blubber of their giant prey.
From New York Times
The Guardian was less impressed, however, giving two stars for Fraser's "disappointing return to movies", describing it as "a hectoring invitation to blubber".
From BBC
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